package team1.project2.scribeagent;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class TestLog {
	
	static Logger log1 = Logger.getLogger("TestLog");
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {

		getContents(new File("/home/chukwa/Downloads/logs/vmkernel.log"));
//
//		for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
//			log1.info("test");
//
//		}
	}
	
	static public String getContents(File aFile) {
	    //...checks on aFile are elided
	    StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();
	    
	    try {
	      //use buffering, reading one line at a time
	      //FileReader always assumes default encoding is OK!
	      BufferedReader input =  new BufferedReader(new FileReader(aFile));
	      try {
	        String line = null; //not declared within while loop
	        /*
	        * readLine is a bit quirky :
	        * it returns the content of a line MINUS the newline.
	        * it returns null only for the END of the stream.
	        * it returns an empty String if two newlines appear in a row.
	        */
	        while (( line = input.readLine()) != null){
	          //contents.append(line);
	          //contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
	          log1.info(line);
	        }
	      }
	      finally {
	        input.close();
	      }
	    }
	    catch (IOException ex){
	      ex.printStackTrace();
	    }
	    
	    return contents.toString();
	  }

}
